Katharina Lenner

Katharina Lenner was a research associate at the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics from 2008 to 2014 and is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Jordan in Amman. Her research interests include interpretive/ethnographic policy analysis, policy translation, development, governance of migration and refugees, social policy and politics in the Global South, particularly in the Arab Mashreq; postcolonial and anthropological perspectives on statehood, nationalism and collective identity. Her Ph.D. thesis, titled ‚Policy-shaping and its limits’ (FU Berlin, 2014) analyses the politics of poverty alleviation and local development in Jordan.